Speculative decoding made my local LLM actually usable
…Related Here's how I get the most out of my self-hosted LLM, especially when limited by VRAM Don't have an RTX 5090? No problem! Running a local LLM is…
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After self-hosting LLMs for a year, I realized that models are not the real bottleneck
…But local LLMs are not search engines. They don't index the web to guess what you mean; they predict the next token based strictly on the context you provide. When I…
I used Claude Code with a local LLM on Ollama, and it’s surprisingly capable for something that's free
…A local LLM is worth the hassle A local LLM It is not as good as using something like Claude through the cloud, but it is still far better than having nothing…
Self-hosted AI may not be for everyone, but I'm done paying for ChatGPT and other cloud models
…Ollama Ollama is a platform to download and run various open-source large language models (LLM) on your local computer. See at Ollama
LM Studio's frontend was slowing me down, so I switched to this instead
…local LLMs was with LM Studio . It seemed to be the best option for starting out, with one program to download that would serve as both a user interface and an LLM…
Local AI isn't just Ollama—here's the ecosystem that actually makes it useful
…Sign in to your XDA account I was impressed with how quickly it was to get a local LLM up and running with Ollama. It was as simple as downloading the installer…
These 5 small tweaks made my self-hosted LLM setup way more productive
…Giving the model local memory via RAG I built a private memory for my local LLM A local LLM is great, but it has a massive blind spot: it doesn’t know…
My local LLM rewrote my resume better than ChatGPT, and it's not even close
…Ollama Ollama is a platform to download and run various open-source large language models (LLM) on your local computer. See at Ollama Related Google's Gemma 4 finally made me care…
I use this local AI tool to turn boring documents into cool narrations
…downloading different HuggingFace models, and after playing with the settings, the generated MP3 was good enough to narrate my academic material. Related I replaced ChatGPT and Claude with this powerful local LLM…
I ran the same prompts through Claude and my local LLM, and the results weren't what I expected
…If unsure, describe the type of resource instead” because local LLMs can be more prone to hallucinating sources. I also have a Brave Search MCP plugin hooked up to my local LLM…